9-Entrance ceremony




 I stayed in front of the vanity for quite a bit longer than usual after I ate breakfast. After all, people do make a great first impression! After brushing your teeth and brushing your hair so that it doesn't look filthy, you go back to your room and put on your brand new school uniform and go back to the vanity mirror to check it again.
 Okay, there's no problem. He's a clean and nice young man from all angles........

''Mom, how is he?''

 When I asked her that, Mom smiled more kindly than usual and said it looked great on her. I checked my watch and figured out that there was still time, and then I went to watch the horoscope on TV.

Ko-chan, the car is about to come to pick you up, so why don't you go out the front door and get ready?

 What a thing to be told. I hadn't heard anything like that, so I asked my mom about it, and apparently the problem is that he's my mom's son... or the son of the "Mother of New Quantum Science". Ah, that. I don't want to get into that kind of trouble. I didn't want to get into that kind of trouble, so I waited for the car to pick me up.

"....what is this?

 When I saw the car that was coming to pick me up, I couldn't help but want to make a U-turn into the house. In front of me was a black car that looked needlessly intimidating. There was a large van in between the front and back. Just as I was about to hold my head up, my mom came out from inside the house.

Okay, Mom, I'm gonna go.

 And then he got in a black car and went quickly. A large van following it......... What's left is a normal sedan-type car, thank goodness! I'm so relieved! That car that looked like it was going to be driven by those intimidating and scary people was either going to be picked up by my mom or I was wondering what I would do if I had to go to school at the academy with that thing.......

It's you, isn't it? Come on, let's go to the academy.

 Out of the remaining car was a skinheaded old man in a black suit and black tie. I shivered in silence until we reached the academy.




''Uh, 1-S....1-S....''

 I'm lost, or rather too big! How much money is this academy spending on this? I'm not sure why people look away from me when I ask them, but I can't ask them. This reminds me of my secondary school days, you know...my eyes are getting hot.
 While I was wandering around thinking about this, I heard footsteps running up behind me, and when I turned around, a beautiful woman was right in front of me, out of breath. I was desperately trying to hold the bottom of my nose, which was about to stretch, and never had the chance to get to know the beauty! I tried to tighten my expression as much as possible so that I wouldn't get caught thinking about things like that, and I tried to ask where my classroom was.

''I'm sorry, Arakawa-kun. It was a mistake on our part, and the person who was going to show you around couldn't get there in time.

 Since he spoke to me first, I just nodded my head, missing the right moment to reply. This is not good. In this case, I'll be thought to be a commie. When I glanced at the beautiful woman, she was swimming her eyes.

Woooooooooooooooooooo. Can't this guy talk properly?

 That's what they're thinking. I need to calm down and get some breathing room. I asked in a relaxed voice

I understand your situation. In the meantime, what should I do? Would you be willing to show me around?

 Okay, perfect. After admitting that he understands the situation at the academy, he's going to ask a beautiful woman to show him around. It may seem like a ghetto plan, but for now, we've got to get to know this beautiful woman in front of us! When I asked her how she was doing, she seemed to be thinking about something, but when I turned to her, she said she would show me around with a smile. The smile of a beautiful woman is soothing in itself!
 I followed behind him in silence for a while and stopped in front of the dean's office. I was expecting him to say hello to the Dean, but he entered the room without knocking and turned around in front of the desk at the far end of the room, turned to me and said with a smile, "Welcome to the Institute of International Technology.









'Welcome to the International Institute of Technology, Mr. Arakawa,' he said with a smile, 'I'm the head of the institute, Kaoru Yamamoto. I'm the head of the institute, Kaori Yamamoto.






----Member of the Guard detail, viewpoint...

 Now we are in a tense situation. Right now, the house is surrounded by a 32-man Ground Self-Defense Force Special Ranger unit and a 20-man security detail of us.

"This is Skinhead. Package is about to be shipped out of the house. Stay alert.

 My identifying name, Skinhead, comes from my hair, of course. Well, it doesn't matter.... It's a problem if you get too tense, so you have to relax a little, thinking about irrelevant things.
 Our mission is to protect Arakawa Kouki. Moreover, we have to repeat this every morning on the first day of school for three years until we graduate from the academy. We know from the materials we were given that the target of our escort is a person who is needed in Japan, and he is also violent and lacks any sense of ethics.... The method of protection we will use this time is a simple decoy. First of all, as a decoy, her mother, Miki Arakawa, will be the first to start with the escort vehicle, which her mother volunteered to take on the role.
 After that, the main missionary, Arakawa Kouki, left alone in one car to go another route. Even though the main mission is to protect only one vehicle, there are stealth attack aircraft of the Air Self-Defense Force waiting in the sky while circling in the sky. Since this type of aircraft is a ground assault aircraft, it can protect a relatively large area, and in addition, disguised armored vehicles are deployed in various places along the route it takes.

This is Special One, decoy shipment confirmed.

Miki Arakawa started as planned, this one too, to secure the real mission.

''It's Kouki-kun, right? Come on, let's go to the academy.

 When I spoke to him, he silently got into the car. Normally, he would have reacted in some way when he saw someone who looked like me, but he was silent. On the contrary, she doesn't like the idea of getting into a car with men on both sides of her. He's doing poorly to show he's irritated.
 I don't want him to be in a bad mood. From tomorrow, I'll ask the Intelligence Department to send a female member of the team with some skill..........









----Point of View ---- Kaoru Yamamoto

 How did this happen? I was running around inside the academy, holding back my screams. When the security team reported Arakawa's arrival, the person in charge didn't seem to realize the gravity of the matter, only told him where they were headed and left him behind. When the report came to me, he was no longer there.
 The UN had contacted me personally to ask me to treat him respectfully, but he had done something outrageous. Moreover, the security team has informed me that he is in a bad mood today. If this is not done well, he might even spray poison gas on the academy to get revenge! When I finally found him and ran over to talk to him, I knew it was too late for me. The moment he turned around and checked me out, his eyes changed with anger, his eyes were like



You're not even gonna send for me? Nonsense.



 That's what he seemed to be saying.... I will.

'I'm sorry, Arakawa-kun. It was an error on our part, and the person who was going to show you around wasn't able to get there in time.

I apologized to him, but he just nodded and didn't respond in any significant way. I was desperately trying to figure out my next move.

I understand your situation. In the meantime, what should I do? Would you be willing to show me around?

 He came to me saying this, and to be honest I'm afraid to refuse. I can't be alone with him, but the way he says it doesn't allow for refusal.... Besides, if he is in a good mood any longer, he will definitely send a cruise missile of his own making to my house tonight. I had no choice but to smile and agree.
 In the end, I returned to my room with no good plan in mind. I turned around and smiled as best I could and said, "I'm burnt out if this happens.





"Welcome to the International Institute of Technology, Arakawa Kouki. I am the head of the institute, Kaori Yamamoto.





----Kouki Arakawa Viewpoint


Welcome to IIT, Kouki Arakawa. I'm the head of the institute, Kaoru Yamamoto.

 The beautiful woman in front of me, or rather the headmaster, said so. Eh, what should I do? You mean I'm the one who got the Dean to show me around? You're definitely angry, why should I bother dealing with these students! And I'm pretty sure I'm thinking.... Okay, let's laugh anyway. It's a strategy I've been cultivating since I was a little girl, laughing at my innermost secrets and pushing them around!

Thank you, Headmaster. It's my pleasure to introduce myself once again, this time as Katsuki Arakawa. Thank you for your support over the next three years.

 That's it! I said, smiling lightly. Don't worry, people can usually get away with it if they smile, they always have, and they always will! Thinking that, I looked at the headmaster........
 If I were to compare it to a blind date, I'd say, "Can you jokingly tell me your e-mail address? And when I said, 'What?' It's almost like the air we breathe when someone gives us a look like "I'm sorry, I don't know what to do". The dean and I, both silent and looking for the other's way out.... After a while, as if to break the frozen space, the headmaster speaks up and says, "Yes, that's right.

You're right. I had a question I wanted to ask you, Kouki-kun, but do you mind?

 At least I was saved. If the air had gone on like this for a long time, I probably would have gone home in tears.

'What is it?'

 This is where you earn points by telling them honestly what they want to know! A lot of my beautiful friends are beautiful, and they're dealing with the dean you're about to take care of, if you don't get them to like you a little bit.

I need you to tell me a little about yourself.

Me? Oh, no, I'm sorry. You mean me, okay?

 Whew! When the beautiful dean of the school asked me to get to know you, I was so surprised that I answered her question outright! No, no, no, don't give me that dirty look, I'm a gentleman. Always be a gentleman, little brother, and keep your face tight.

"That's okay, that's okay.

 The dean of the school spoke to me in a panic. How could I not like it! It's more of a reward. What is it? What do you want to know about me? When I asked the question while holding back my breath, the headmaster showed some thought as he asked me a question.

You set off fireworks from the beach when you were 12 years old. What did you want to do with it?

 Hmm ... 12 years old? I don't know if I did that, or rather, how does he know that he doesn't even remember that? Oh well. Let's just remember for now... Fireworks, fireworks.... Ah! The thing! I remember one time when Macho was at home, he showed me some fireworks that he used to assemble for work.
 As I listened to him halfheartedly, I thought that he would use it to scare away wild animals in Africa and the Amazon, since he was going to work in the savage areas, but it seemed that the high altitude of the firecrackers made them easy to be spotted. After hearing that, I launched it on the beach and it flew at about 80 meters high. I thought that if it flew at this height, it would be found, so I asked my mother for advice, but she suggested increasing the speed and lowering the altitude. I sketched the shape of a firework and its flying form and gave it to him, and he made a new firework for me in about six months.
 My mother, a genius, had made a new firework that flew at 1200 km/h and avoided obstacles automatically at an altitude of less than 2 meters. When I set off the fireworks on the beach again, they disappeared over the horizon in a frenzy Come to think of it, I was impressed by the lights that I thought were fighter jets flying around that night. When I told him that, the headmaster nodded in admiration. Okay, you were interested in my son's mirror-like concern for my father, who as far as I'm concerned, Macho, who is not a good human being, to take off his skin and ask his mother to do it for him! That's a high point.

'So, when you were thirteen years old, you launched it from your yard?

 Well, it all started when a lady in Macho's office said she wanted to look at the earth, and since Macho has always helped her, I talked to my mom and got her to improve the rocket fireworks she had made before.
 Then I put a small satellite made by my mom, and flew it. The lady was so pleased with the image of the blue earth that came back later from the satellite that she said, "I can see so many details! How excited you were, you did your best, that's all. By the way, besides those satellites, I set off a couple of other things that were rocket fireworks without telling my mom, but I'm not telling her that....

"Can you tell me what else you launched besides the satellites?

 No, not that one! I can never teach you......... I will never teach you, no matter how much you make your eyes water at the thought of hearing that! I had to divert my interest somehow. Just then, I heard a knock at the door.



''Headmaster, it's time for the entrance ceremony to begin.

 A glamorous blonde sister came in just in time to call the headmaster........






---- Kaoru Yamamoto Viewpoint----

Welcome to IIT, Kouki Arakawa. I'm the head of the institute, Kaoru Yamamoto.

When I said that, he laughed at me as if I was chuckling.

Thank you, Headmaster. It's my pleasure to introduce myself once again, this time as Katsuki Arakawa. Thank you for your support over the next three years.

The expression on his face and the air in the room was obvious.


I know how much I know. Do you not understand that? Stupid woman....


He appeals to me. I had to break this silent space somehow. I thought of a solution desperately, and after I did it, I regretted it.

I regret it. I had something I wanted to ask you.

 What am I saying? I can't think straight and can't understand what I'm saying. He has an expression in his eyes that isn't smiling, and asks me to continue.... As if obeying the devil's whisper, I uttered my next words.

'I need you to tell me a little about yourself.'

 After I say it, I gasp. What did I just say! I said perhaps the most unwise words to the young man in front of me, and when I looked at him, he gave me a stern look of affirmation.
 Shouldn't we stop here? The thought of this has crossed my mind. But already my inquisitive mind as a researcher has swelled up inside of me, and I can no longer control it. Child of the Devil..... I remembered again that this young man was called that. If I hear any more stories, I won't be able to back out and I'll be one of the cogs in the wheel that hides this young man's true form. But that's okay, I'm more interested in the facts.

'You were twelve years old when you set off fireworks from the beach. What did you want to do with that thing?

 When I asked him that, he told me with a smile. He was consulted about the shortcomings of his father's cruise missile, and when he tried to test it out, it seemed to be very impractical for his level. So he designed an improved version and asked his mother to build one... The resulting missile seems to have surpassed the performance of the previous one. He seems to think that the desperate interceptions made by the Self-Defense Forces with their prestige were nothing more than a child making a noise. The proof of this is.


The lights of the fighters were impressive that day.


What a statement. I suppose it's a sign of confidence that he can't do anything about the swarm of May flies. As a researcher, I just nodded in admiration of his absolute confidence in what he had created. I also ask him about the rocket he launched when he was 13 years old.


 It seems that the rocket I launched from my garden was a spy satellite. If a colleague of his father's, who wanted a spy satellite, it must have been someone in the United Nations military intelligence service. That person 'looks very detailed and good! I don't need to think about the performance of existing satellites to know that they are far out of line.
 But when I asked him about it, he immediately said it was a secret. He seems to be in a bit of a panic, and he says in a whisper that it would be the end of the world if they found out about that thing. A person of his caliber is in a hurry, and you have to send him into space to hide it.... Only one idea occurred to me.




Viral weapon.


 There's no doubt about it. He dumped a virus into space that was highly contagious or lethal, or probably both, but he dumped a virus that was unmanageable on Earth. I almost cried, he would even create something that humans couldn't manage with impunity........ Can this be managed by ethical education alone? I looked at him with that thought.



Dean, it's time for the entrance ceremony to begin.

Roberta Scarlett, who was to teach his class, entered the room.






----Roberta's point of view----

 As I guide them, I look at the young man walking next to me. It's a very strange person, most men would stare at my chest, but this guy doesn't act like he's interested in me. On the contrary, he is walking as if he has no interest in me. I was a little confused because I had never seen this happen before, but I didn't expect him to say, "You don't look at my breasts? There's no way you can say that. The headmaster has told me that this young man will be in my class, but I don't really know what he's like yet. I was hoping that I would be able to understand him a little better during this time, but I didn't know how to talk to him and ended up in the hall.
 I showed him to his seat and went to my seat. Can I really teach a student like him for a year like this? I'm not worried.........